Guide to Live Comedy Shows in NYC This Week: June 29 – July 5, 2017

Live Comedy in New York City This Week:

New York features some of the best live comedy in the world every single night, from Manhattan to Queens, Brooklyn and beyond. But with so many to choose from, it can be difficult to find them all and nearly impossible to decide which shows to see. Every week, Christine Marie Evans and Emily Cohen curate this list, carefully reviewing dozens of shows every night, to select the live stand up comedy shows you need check out. Comedy producers can submit their show for consideration for our listings each week.

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A showcase of New York City’s best comics handpicked by Carolines on Broadway staff. The Funniest Show On Broadway comedians have been featured on ABC, CBS, Comedy Central, E!, Funny or Die, HBO, Hulu, MTV, NBC, Netflix, TBS, truTV, Vice & More!

Wil Sylvince hosts as some of the best comics in New York come and try out their new material!

Ticket Link: www.comedycellar.com

Show: Fresh Out NY

Venue: UCBeast
Location:153 E. 3rd Street NYC

Time: 9pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

Fresh Out! is a standup comedy show featuring the freshest comics available anywhere. From heavy hitters like past guests Zach Galifianakis, John Mulaney, Jim Gaffigan, David Cross, Mike Birbiglia, and Janeane Garofalo, to the best of New York’s up-and-coming comics, we bring you the best!

TICKETS FOR THE MOTH STORYTELLING SLAM HOSTED BY OPHIRA EISENBERG AT THE BELL HOUSE ON 7/6 ON SALE TODAY 6/29 AT 3PM!

LIVE COMEDY FRIDAY 6/30

Show: The Naked Show

Venue: The Creek and The Cave
Location:10-93 Jackson Avenue LIC

Time: 11:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

Yeah, like *really* naked. Legions of neurotic stand-ups may claim that they are bearing their souls while rambling about MTA fees, but how many of them really expose themselves? Watch as some of the NYC’s most daring comics strip down and do stand-up the way God made ’em. Audience members are welcome to watch in any state of undress they like, but pictures are strongly prohibited.

Casey James Salengo is a New York City-based comedian originally hailing from the Adirondack Mountains. He has been featured in the Bridgetown, Brooklyn, and Red Clay comedy festivals and is one of the Just For Laughs 2016 “New Faces” in Montreal. He can be seen on the upcoming season of Uproarious on Fuse.

He just recorded a half hour special for “Comedy Central Stand Up Presents” in New Orleans that will premiere later this year!

RISK! is a live show and podcast “where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share in public” hosted by Kevin Allison, of the legendary TV sketch comedy troupe The State. The award-winning live show happens monthly in New York and Los Angeles. It’s featured people like Janeane Garofalo, Lisa Lampanelli, Kevin Nealon, Margaret Cho, Marc Maron, Sarah Silverman, Lili Taylor, Rachel Dratch, Andy Borowitz and more, dropping the act and showing a side of themselves we’ve never seen before. The weekly podcast gets hundreds of thousands of downloads each month. Slate.com called it “jaw-dropping, hysterically funny, and just plain touching.”

LIVE COMEDY SATURDAY 7/1

Show: Rich Vos

Venue: Gotham Comedy Club
Location:208 W. 23rd Street NYC

Time: 8 & 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

Raised in New Jersey, Rich Vos is a no-holds-barred performer who destroys in comedy clubs around the country. A comedian’s comedian, he can be heard regularly on Opie and Jimmy and as a guest on the most popular podcasts including WTF with Marc Maron and Rogan.

Rich also has his own hit podcast (on Riotcast) and a radio show (on Sirius) both called My Wife Hates Me. (That’s not confusing.) His cohost is his wife, comedian Bonnie McFarlane.

Rich can be seen on HBO, Showtime, Starz, Jimmy Kimmel and Comedy Central where he has two stand-up specials. Rich Vos can also be seen in the hit Netflix movie Women Aren’t Funny which he also produced.

As a comedy writer, he’s come up with the best lines for the Comedy Central Roasts and was a writer this year on the Oscars for the second time.

Jackknife Comedy is a rad monthly stand up show hosted by two dummies from Iowa, Gideon Hambright and Patrick Hastie! Each month they pick a bunch of their favorite comedians to come do sets, drink and have a blast! Come party with us!

New York Comedy Club presents a nightly showcase of the best talent in the city, plus special guests from Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, Boston, Austin, and around the world. You’ve seen these guys on Comedy Central, MTV, The Tonight Show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Conan, The Daily Show, The Nightly Show, Last Comic Standing and more.

LIVE COMEDY SUNDAY 7/2

Show: New York Comedy Club Showcase

Venue: New York Comedy Club
Location:241 E. 24th Street NYC

Time: 9pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

New York Comedy Club presents a nightly showcase of the best talent in the city, plus special guests from Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, Boston, Austin, and around the world. You’ve seen these guys on Comedy Central, MTV, The Tonight Show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Conan, The Daily Show, The Nightly Show, Last Comic Standing and more.

Michael Blackson has been called one of the most original stand-up comics in the country, and his performances leave audiences laughing in tears. Michael Blackson, aka, ‘The African King of Comedy’, has been entertaining audiences all across the country and around the globe for more than a decade. Inspired by the stand up comedy of Eddie Murphy, Blackson began to develop his comedic talent in 1992 in the unkind comedy clubs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Blackson’s comedic appeal grew from his involvement with BET’s ComicView series, HBO’s Def Comedy Jam, Showtime at Harlem, and Live in Hollywood. However, it was in a Los Angeles comedy club where Blackson got his big break. Blackson was performing at the Comedy Store where actor/director Ice Cube was in attendance to see comedian Mike Epps perform. But after experiencing Blackson’s performance, Ice Cube invited the young comic for a reading…and the rest is smash hit history! Blackson’s outstanding and unforgettable performance in the smash hit comedy, Next Friday, drew praise and a fan following like no other.

LIVE COMEDY MONDAY 7/3

Show: Ted Alexandro: Senior Class of Earth Special Taping

Venue: The Village Underground
Location:130 W. 3rd Street NYC

Time: 7pm & 9pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

Ted has performed multiple times on David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Craig Ferguson, The View and two half-hour specials on Comedy Central.Ted opened for Louis C.K. at Carnegie Hall and for Jim Gaffigan at Madison Square Garden.Ted has performed internationally in Jordan, Egypt, Kuwait, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Jakarta, England, Holland, Israel, South Africa and Qatar. Ted appears regularly at the Comedy Cellar in NYC. Ted has appeared on “Louie,” “Inside Amy Schumer,” “The Gaffigan Show,” “Dr. Katz,” and “Oz.” Ted co-created the award-winning comedy webseries “Teachers Lounge” with Hollis James. The series stars Ted as a music teacher and Hollis as a janitor in a NYC elementary school. Each episode stars a different comedian (Judy Gold, Jim Gaffigan, Dave Attell, Michael Che) as a faculty member. Ted is one of the co-founders of the New York Comedians Coalition, which successfully organized over three hundred comedians for a pay raise. Ted has been active in social justice movements like Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, The Climate March and Fight for $15

Comedian and native New Yorker Nat Towsen (VICE, CollegeHumor) welcomes hilarious comedians, local artists, and Village luminaries for a variety show in the eclectic tradition of the disappearing downtown Manhattan culture. Every show also features a “Downtown History” segment, music from classic local musicians, and free giveaways from local businesses. New Yorkers, transplants, and tourists are all welcome.

Sasheer Zamata (SNL, This American Life)

Shannon Coffey (MTV’s Girl Code, VH1’s The 20)

Downtown History (know your city!)

NYC Trivia w/ Becca Beberaggi

Sponsored by Two Boots and Forbidden Planet, with free beer from Brewery Ommegang (while supplies last, for patrons 21+).

No one likes you…….GOOD! Welcome to The Dump!: A Goddamn Storytelling Show! This is where Jake Hart(RISK!; Nights of Our Lives) hosts NYC’s funniest storytellers & YOU! Get 8 MINUTES of stage time to tell any ONE true story y’all want. No themes, no judgments. Just a room full of shitty people scrambling for a reason to live.

LIVE COMEDY WEDNESDAY 7/5

Fresh off the 4th of July, the SMUT Presents team brings you a brand new headliner dropping 40 minutes for The Headliner Series. We’re proud to present July’s featured headliner: Mehran Khagani!

Mehran Khaghani is a standup comedian, emcee, actor, event producer, upstart, social advocate, serial yeller, trouble-maker, love-spreader, line-pusher and general intellect of intimidating proportion currently living in New York City. Remarkably gay and of Iranian descent, Mehran has a well earned reputation as a performer who can make any event a raucous, joyous success.

He has been a finalist in multiple comedy festivals, tours nationally, was featured on Season 9 of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, has been seen on MTV, Comedy Central, IFC, TruTV and Seeso and is a regular at the world famous Comedy Cellar in New York City. Mehran currently hosts one of New York’s hottest weekly bar shows, Hush Money, every Monday night at Pinks bar in the East Village.

Witch Hunt comedy show was inspired by the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 in Colonial Massachusetts where many women were accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake. This show is in memory of those women and all the female comedians who when they see an all male lineup want to set themselves on fire.

Did you know that all female comedians are actually witches? We have powers beyond making people laugh. Like for example, we live forever. This is an all female comedy show plus one or two male mortals whose lives we decided to spare. We hope to see you so we can make you laugh for eternity!

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